Your Book Review: Orality and Literacy - An ACX Book Review
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Language is not one invention but two, says this finalist in the ACX Book Review Contest. It reads Walter Ong’s Orality and Literacy, on how writing changed what we remember, how we build sentences and stories, and even how we think, from Homer’s improvising bards and Luria’s syllogisms to the SAT. Then it looks up from the book at a world that is drifting back toward speech through the infinite scroll, and argues that if literacy is to survive, writing has to start doing what speech never could.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:48 - 1. Carve* 03:13 - 2. Press* 21:36 - 3. Feed* 53:21 - 4. Eyehttps://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/your-book-review-orality-and-literacy?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe
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